RE: If beauty doesn't require God, why should morality? (Bite me Dr. Craig.)
August 2, 2014 at 2:43 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2014 at 2:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The physicalist position is irrelevant to any computational theory of mind - it doesn't have to hold for that sort of model to be accurate, or have explanatory power. We're not trying to explain "everything" just this one thing. Whether there's just 1 kind of "stuff" or 10 - and whatever that other "stuff" may be made of, we don't seem to require any more "stuff" than what we see to explain something like qualia. It's within the remit of both what we observe and predictions based upon those observations. If there is special sauce somewhere, it needn't be here. If theres special sauce here, it would appear to be extraneous. Not offering any modification to the observational data. The same is true for gravity, and it has the same sorts of issue as our current models of the mind have-for largely the same reasons.
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